RancherOS Release v1.1.0

[SvenDowideit]

v1.1.0

• Linux 4.9.45
• Docker 17.03.2-ce LTS by default, 17.06.1-ce available
• autodetect VMWare hypervisor and automatically enable open-vm-tools at boot.
  • Also enables xenhvm-vm-tools, kvm-vm-tools, hyperv-vm-tools and bhyve-vm-tools, but these services don’t exist yet.

See the RancherOS v1.1 documentation for more information.

Amazon AMIs

Please see our README to find our community AMIs.

New:

• Syslinux Boot menu with debug, autologin, recovery and edit options https://github.com/rancher/os/pull/1957
• Detect some virtualization hosts (vbox, xen, paralells, vmware) and auto enable open-vm-tools for vmware at boot https://github.com/rancher/os/pull/1883
• VMWare ESXi datasource can now use guestinfo, including url or local file based cloud-init https://github.com/rancher/os/pull/1883
• Add recovery console that starts very early in the boot process https://github.com/rancher/os/pull/1931
• Logrotate system service https://github.com/rancher/os/pull/1966
• Cron service https://github.com/rancher/os/pull/1966
• Always save Debug boot logs to /var/log/boot https://github.com/rancher/os/pull/1991
• log RancherOS debug logs to remote syslog server when netconsole kernel boot param is set https://github.com/rancher/os/pull/2046
• Add reboot –kexec (–kexe-previous –kexec-append) to avoid the full BIOS powercycle https://github.com/rancher/os/pull/1965
• Add poweroff –f to avoid shutting down containers https://github.com/rancher/os/issues/1855
• Allow NFS in cloud-config mounts https://github.com/rancher/os/issues/1620
• Remove docker 1.10 and 1.11 support from RancherOS v1.11 https://github.com/rancher/os/pull/2056
• Docker 17.06 support https://github.com/rancher/os/issues/1985

Fixes:

• Add a DHCP wait to allow the network to settle before starting services https://github.com/rancher/os/pull/1921
• Don’t overwrite a good resolv.conf with the default one (3 times during boot!) https://github.com/rancher/os/pull/2062
• Fix ntpd when there are large time drifts https://github.com/rancher/os/pull/1997
• Network pre and post cmds improved https://github.com/rancher/os/pull/1869
• Fix openstack console https://github.com/rancher/os/pull/1922
• Serial console prompt stalls fixed https://github.com/rancher/os/issues/1234
• Improve Docker-machine compatibility with v1.12.0
• When enabling a local file based service, allow it to use a local image https://github.com/rancher/os/issues/1899

Dev

• Use APTPROXY env var when building to use a local apt-cacher https://github.com/rancher/os/pull/1920
• Use ENGINE_REGISTRY_PROXY for local registry mirror when building

[MatthewHartstonge]

Awesome to see support for open-vm-tools! better monitoring here we come
A lot of awesome new features in this release Thanks team!

[malko]

Thanks for the great release! Nice to see ROS is continously being refined.

My cluster OS of choice!

[disruptive]

Great work on this guys!

[keynone]

Can you please add examples for storage containers, especially for mounting an lvm2 volume? I believe it was first announced in 0.4.0, but never documented. Thank you!